Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) Given Average Rating of “Moderate Buy” by Analysts

Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) has earned an average rating of “Moderate Buy” from the forty-five analysts that are covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has assigned a hold rating, forty-one have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. The average 1 year price objective among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $243.6818.

DDOG has been the topic of several research analyst reports. Citigroup upped their price objective on Datadog from $218.00 to $270.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, June 17th. Craig Hallum initiated coverage on Datadog in a research note on Monday, June 15th. They set a “buy” rating for the company. Monness Crespi & Hardt lifted their price objective on Datadog from $255.00 to $270.00 in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Citizens Jmp upgraded Datadog from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $225.00 price objective on the stock in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, Morgan Stanley raised shares of Datadog from an “overweight” rating to an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, June 15th.

Insider Transactions at Datadog

In related news, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $271.05, for a total transaction of $14,612,847.60. Following the sale, the chief technology officer directly owned 531,311 shares in the company, valued at approximately $144,011,846.55. This represents a 9.21% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Also, CFO David M. Obstler sold 75,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, June 8th. The stock was sold at an average price of $231.69, for a total transaction of $17,376,750.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer directly owned 434,591 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $100,690,388.79. This trade represents a 14.72% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Over the last three months, insiders have sold 1,467,864 shares of company stock valued at $311,427,105. 6.48% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Datadog

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of DDOG. JPL Wealth Management LLC bought a new position in shares of Datadog in the third quarter worth $27,000. CoreCap Advisors LLC grew its position in shares of Datadog by 1,461.5% in the fourth quarter. CoreCap Advisors LLC now owns 203 shares of the company’s stock valued at $28,000 after purchasing an additional 190 shares in the last quarter. Flagship Harbor Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Datadog in the fourth quarter valued at $31,000. NBC Securities Inc. raised its stake in shares of Datadog by 242.6% during the 4th quarter. NBC Securities Inc. now owns 233 shares of the company’s stock valued at $32,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares during the period. Finally, Rothschild Investment LLC lifted its holdings in Datadog by 52.5% during the 4th quarter. Rothschild Investment LLC now owns 273 shares of the company’s stock worth $37,000 after purchasing an additional 94 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 78.29% of the company’s stock.

Datadog Price Performance

DDOG stock opened at $260.36 on Monday. The stock has a market cap of $92.68 billion, a P/E ratio of 685.18, a P/E/G ratio of 26.47 and a beta of 1.54. The company has a current ratio of 3.40, a quick ratio of 3.40 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $213.66 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $156.00. Datadog has a 1-year low of $98.01 and a 1-year high of $278.70.

Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG) last released its earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.51 by $0.09. The company had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $960.12 million. Datadog had a return on equity of 4.83% and a net margin of 3.69%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 32.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.46 EPS. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.360-2.440 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.570-0.590 EPS. Analysts expect that Datadog will post 0.64 EPS for the current year.

Datadog Company Profile

Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a cloud-based monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations monitor, troubleshoot and secure their applications and infrastructure at scale. Its software-as-a-service offering collects and analyzes metrics, traces and logs from servers, containers, cloud services and applications to provide real-time visibility into system performance and health. Datadog’s platform is widely used by engineering, operations and security teams to reduce downtime, accelerate incident response and improve application reliability.

The company’s product suite includes infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring and network performance monitoring, along with security-focused products such as security monitoring and cloud SIEM.